In the past in my electorate, there was an attempt by candidates to try and make contact with the public and present their party’s ideas and policies. This election not a single rally was held. The major parties continue to take non-marginal communities for granted.
The media also was desperate to keep the voices of 1/3 of Australia out of the leaders’ debates, with two leaders barely pushing their party vote over 33% being presented as the only option. The disrespect for the public is palpable.
Sarah Ferguson guffawing with Christopher Pyne and Bill Shorten with their private insider jokes was the cherry on top of a mud sundae where the topics are preplanned and no serious discussion is allowed.
If there is an ALP majority which is expanded after today, there needs to be a serious discussion about electoral reform for proportional representation by minor parties because preferential voting is suppressing alternatives.
I'm 62 and have voted since first enrolled at 18. I have never seen a suasage sizzle at a polling booth. Where do these things take place? On a serious note, the 2 major parties, both beholden to billionaire planet-wreckers and both morally bankrupt, needed to be sent a clear message. Disappointing that although many, many people put the major parties way down on their ballot papers, no doubt Albasleazy will claim a mandate for his radical programme of doing absolutely nothing to change the hideous status-quo of oligarchy and of silence in the face of genocide. Shame, shame, shame.
Labor now have a chance to shape Australia into a fairer and more equitable country. I would like to think that Albanese will do that but his record of safe centrist policies is not encouraging. He is, above all, a political strategist. If his target is now to set up a third term then we can expect another dose of steady as she goes centrist policies which do not significantly address the most important issues; the concentration of wealth, housing, health, climate and environment. Once the pendulum starts to swing, it is likely to change direction and travel just as far in the other direction. The right are not finished.
Those three words (concentration of wealth) are very significant to the current cost of living crisis, but have not been uttered by any political candidate in the campaign, to my knowledge. The oligarchy needs to be brought down by a few billion; it's the only way we're going to fix this mess.
Labor know that they would lose significant support if they attempted to seriously reduce the lurks available to the wealthy. I don’t have the data but I suspect many in the top 20% have allowed their preferences to drift to Labor as the Coalition wandered off into the anti-woke wilderness.
"Anomie" is the appropriate word to describe the situation in which we find ourselves. The social fabric has worn so thin, it's unraveling. I can't call this a society anymore - we live in the Dissociety.
No wonder the 'garchs no longer fear us, letting fall their mask, openly declaring themselves technofeudal lords, carving up the landscape into corporate zones, selling off the remnants of the Commons - the Final Enclosure.
They slaughter now so openly, the reek of blood fills our nostrils, and though we stand in line before the same abattoir, we just chew our cud and do not stir. Gaza is a test of our humanity. What have we become?
Gaza is speaking! The Greens obviously weren't pro-palestinain enough, otherwise they would've won, at least on twitter.
If Joel spent less time online and actually engaged in the policies of Labor, he'd probably evolve past the usual blogger snobbery and actually present labor more honestly instead two-siding LNP and Lab. Strikes as me as the textbook journo that friendlyJordies roasts.
Thank you for your article Joel.
In the past in my electorate, there was an attempt by candidates to try and make contact with the public and present their party’s ideas and policies. This election not a single rally was held. The major parties continue to take non-marginal communities for granted.
The media also was desperate to keep the voices of 1/3 of Australia out of the leaders’ debates, with two leaders barely pushing their party vote over 33% being presented as the only option. The disrespect for the public is palpable.
Sarah Ferguson guffawing with Christopher Pyne and Bill Shorten with their private insider jokes was the cherry on top of a mud sundae where the topics are preplanned and no serious discussion is allowed.
If there is an ALP majority which is expanded after today, there needs to be a serious discussion about electoral reform for proportional representation by minor parties because preferential voting is suppressing alternatives.
THIS is how you do "election coverage"!! 👏👏
This is all we deserve at this point unfortunately and when we stop accepting THIS, we will get something better…..but not a second before that!
https://actionabletruth.substack.com/p/confederate-constitutional-republic
Hate the system…not the candidates. They are just ACTORS after all.
I'm 62 and have voted since first enrolled at 18. I have never seen a suasage sizzle at a polling booth. Where do these things take place? On a serious note, the 2 major parties, both beholden to billionaire planet-wreckers and both morally bankrupt, needed to be sent a clear message. Disappointing that although many, many people put the major parties way down on their ballot papers, no doubt Albasleazy will claim a mandate for his radical programme of doing absolutely nothing to change the hideous status-quo of oligarchy and of silence in the face of genocide. Shame, shame, shame.
Labor now have a chance to shape Australia into a fairer and more equitable country. I would like to think that Albanese will do that but his record of safe centrist policies is not encouraging. He is, above all, a political strategist. If his target is now to set up a third term then we can expect another dose of steady as she goes centrist policies which do not significantly address the most important issues; the concentration of wealth, housing, health, climate and environment. Once the pendulum starts to swing, it is likely to change direction and travel just as far in the other direction. The right are not finished.
Those three words (concentration of wealth) are very significant to the current cost of living crisis, but have not been uttered by any political candidate in the campaign, to my knowledge. The oligarchy needs to be brought down by a few billion; it's the only way we're going to fix this mess.
Labor know that they would lose significant support if they attempted to seriously reduce the lurks available to the wealthy. I don’t have the data but I suspect many in the top 20% have allowed their preferences to drift to Labor as the Coalition wandered off into the anti-woke wilderness.
Horribly apt.
"Anomie" is the appropriate word to describe the situation in which we find ourselves. The social fabric has worn so thin, it's unraveling. I can't call this a society anymore - we live in the Dissociety.
No wonder the 'garchs no longer fear us, letting fall their mask, openly declaring themselves technofeudal lords, carving up the landscape into corporate zones, selling off the remnants of the Commons - the Final Enclosure.
They slaughter now so openly, the reek of blood fills our nostrils, and though we stand in line before the same abattoir, we just chew our cud and do not stir. Gaza is a test of our humanity. What have we become?
Gaza is speaking! The Greens obviously weren't pro-palestinain enough, otherwise they would've won, at least on twitter.
If Joel spent less time online and actually engaged in the policies of Labor, he'd probably evolve past the usual blogger snobbery and actually present labor more honestly instead two-siding LNP and Lab. Strikes as me as the textbook journo that friendlyJordies roasts.
Nicely said.
Truth